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Title: ON LOCATION: A Day's Filming With Group 5

Reference number: 4238

Date: 1959

Director: d. Ronald Miller

Production company: Group 5

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.25 mins

Description: Shooting on location for the film TIMEBOMB with Group 5, an enthusiastic amateur film unit from Aberdeenshire. Featuring boys from Aberdeen Grammar School. Various aspects of the shoot are shown, including base camp, continuity, direction, camera positioning, tracking shots, special effects used such as fire and water.

See also ref. 7357 for the film TIMEBOMB (the location shoot of which features in this film)

Shotlist: title (1.35) on a Sunday morning in April somewhere along Aberdeen's rocky coastline, Group 5, an enthusiastic amateur film unit get ready for a days filming on its adventure film TIME BOMB... gvs boys putting up tents on beach. The director checks clothing for the purposes of continuity (2.15) director explaining action, the cameras start rolling (most of the cast are boys from Aberdeen Grammar School) (2.50) gvs action as boys walk up to house, director finds the most appropriate camera angles (3.52) change of location, an improvised dolly and track is set up - a tracking shot is taken (4.30) sitting in a field, the boys enjoy a well-earned teabreak (4.40) gvs fire sequence being shot, the camera in the water along with the actors - fire cuts across surface of water (5.39) shore scene, rehearsals are carried out due to complex camerawork (three cameras) (6.45) the final rescue sequence (9.01) gvs after a day's filming, making the way back to camp, eating by the fire, wringing out wet clothes (9.54) leaving for home (10.03) The End (10.08)